J5 Consulting is a Maryland based company established in 2006 to provide computing and consulting services for government and commercial entities. Our services improve Information System networking performance and compliance and protect electronic assets from loss and compromise. We welcome your application to receive consideration for the following position.
This position is available immediately.
Announcement closes 11/17/24.
Job Overview:
The Customer is responsible for sensitive cross-cutting projects to further national security objectives. The Contractor will support the hardware, software, networks and systems underpinning the operations, maintenance, development, upgrade and security of a Customer system in a team environment to enable the Customer’s critical mission. This effort focuses on the data architecture, software engineering and development of system tools and capabilities. Priorities and tasking will be managed by the GTM with input from the Customer’s Front Office.
System Support—HRR: YES
This position will:
- Support all elements of the Customer’s system, comprised of commercial off the shelf (COTS) products and software, along with several customized tools and applications.
- Provide the Customer a modern and stable platform which meets security requirements and enables users to search, discover, prioritize, analyze, collaborate and manage information.
- Support enhancement efforts and develop new capabilities for Customer’s use to meet mission needs.
- Integrate a large and changing number of datasets from a variety of cloud-based and other systems.
- Maintain system uptime, stability, and accreditation requirements.
- Work closely with Customer staff and contractor personnel, as well as external vendors and stakeholders (including development of technical equipment specifications and vendor quotations); communicating and collaborating effectively across organizational boundaries.
- Identify issues or dependencies to Customer staff and work to resolve them as prioritized by the Government Task Manager with input from Customer’s Front Office
- Maximize the security of the system by protecting Customer data and ensuring security best practices, including those defined by the Customer, are followed.
Data Architecture, Software Engineering and Development —HRR: YES
This position will:
- Maintain and enhance the Customer’s system data architecture and enterprise data management software, services (including automated data extract, transform, load (ETL)) and solutions to ingest, integrate, reconcile and harmonize data from cloud-based and other systems and repositories across Customer and Customer partner organizations, in accordance with Customer’s priorities.
- Support a legacy customized application which provides federated search and knowledge management capabilities, along with a customized security logging service.The Contractor shall design develop and maintain advanced analytics delivered via web-based platforms.
- Install, patch and update software to maintain system capabilities, uptime and stability, and support Customer Assessment & Authorization (A&A) accreditation requirements.
- Support software engineering and development efforts to maintain current and deliver new capabilities to enhance data discovery, exploitation, and analytics, including the integration and use of established and novel artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques.
Contractor shall have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience:
- Demonstrated experience with security-controlled systems, software, and data architecture.
- Demonstrated experience with Assessment and Authorization (A&A) processes to accredit security-controlled systems.
- Demonstrated experience as a data transfer officer with security-controlled systems.
- Demonstrated experience with Amazon Web Services Cloud Engineering, Development and Administration.
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining data intensive applications and architecture.
- Demonstrated software development experience, including C#, C++, Python, and other system and application programming languages.
- Demonstrated experience with designing, developing, and maintaining web applications utilizing Javascript, Javascript frameworks (such as React, VueJs or Angular), HTML5, CSS and CSS frameworks (such as Bootstrap or Tailwind).
- Demonstrated experience with development technologies including Git, Gitlab, and Docker supporting continuous integration and delivery of web applications and microservices.
- Demonstrated software scripting experience, including Python, BASH and PowerShell.
- Demonstrated database programming experience, to include Oracle and Microsoft SQL, PL/SQL scripts, and vendor APIs and XML and JSON data formats for Oracle Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS).
- Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining complex web services for Linux and Windows servers.
- Demonstrated Experience with Lotus Notes software development including C/C++ APIs.
- Demonstrated experience with certificate management for users, servers and anonymous services.
- Demonstrated experience with Windows and Linux systems engineering and administration.
- Demonstrated experience cross-skilling and backfilling for teammates.
- Demonstrated experience handling sensitive data, exercising discretion and sound judgment, and achieving mission outcomes.
Skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include:
- Demonstrated experience with Customer’s security-controlled systems, software, and data architecture.
- Demonstrated experience with Customer’s legacy and next-generation messaging systems, including system protocols and APIs, along with message formats and schemas.
- Demonstrated experience with Customer’s Assessment and Authorization (A&A) processes.
- Demonstrated experience as a data transfer officer with Customer’s security-controlled systems.
- Demonstrated experience with IT Program Management and support.
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US Citizenship:
- This position requires US Citizenship. Verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements will be confirmed.
Security Clearance:
- The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph.
- Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
Travel:
The primary place of performance is at a Customer location in WMA.
- Local travel/POV will be on an as needed basis, within the local place of performance.
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This position is available immediately.
J5 Consulting offers excellent benefits and compensation packages. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing fair and equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.
